AoW wont save.

[Marson]

Check out the above - using 32bit Windows means you waste 5gb of your installed 8gb. Your problem will be fixed if you switch to 64bit Windows.

As it is 3562 MB - 1780 MB = 1782 MB, far less than the game's published minimum of 2gb.

Cheers.

 

[sag503]

I have this issue as well, checked folder, nothing their either. Happens since patch and DLC was released the other day.

 

[AndrewT]

Did you see my post #20 ?

 

[ruzen]

so now I have to buy 64bit to play? and another 4gb ram I guess

 

[AndrewT]

so now I have to buy 64bit to play? and another 4gb ram I guess

Did you see my post #20 ? please try it.

 

[Metroitendo]

It works now, I can finally start a campaign knowing I won't lose all my progress when I crash or quit the game. Thank you very much AndrewT.

 

[Renato Stengel]

For EVERYONE with 32bit Windows:

Try rolling back to 1.7.3 in the Steam beta tab; if that helps then do this Workaround:

1: Open Command Prompt (it's in Accessories in Vista)

2: Set it to be in Admin mode http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947813(v=ws.10).aspx

3: Paste this in: bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2560

4: Restart


5: If you ever need to undo: BCDEdit /deletevalue increaseuserva


For XP only: http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27...ry-errors-allow-applications-use-2gb-ram.html

Note this will NOT help if you have 2gb or less of system memory, only loading fewer DLCs will do that, or rolling back to 1.7.3 .

And please start planning your move to 64bit Windows! Most Windows licenses allow you access to that for free, there's just the procedure of doing a reinstall that's a pain.

For me, it doesn't work; still no save.

Of course, all is fine again with 1.7.3

 

[Perrou]

Hi again. I cant use this fix for some reasion it always says that "cant find the specific command" this solution was given to me when i was playing the witcher 2 but for some reason some versions of win 7 cant do "bcedit", when i roll back to 1.7.3 i can save but as i point beford thats not the solution i loking for. I will ask this now if the devs will fix this issue or is the game will be not compatible with win7 32bits anymore. if that the case I will be force to ask for a refund of the game and dlc because as i point beford in the support page of the the system req. for the game it dosent list win64 bits as a requirement and i will not changue my windows version for one game only. I dont want to sound insulting I just wannna know if i will be able to keep playing the game thats all.

 

[RobRoy3]

Just out of curiosity, have people with save problems tried using the old "userdir.txt" file to keep saves in the EU4 directory (where they belong)? Not saying it'll work, and no idea why some people are having this issue. But can't hurt to try.

If you're not familiar with it, it's a file that directs the "save games" and related folders to whatever directory you specify in the "userdir..txt" file, rather than to your documents directory. In most cases, it'll have nothing but a single "." in it, which keeps your save games in the same directory as the rest of your EU4 files. You can create one from scratch, using a text editor, if you don't have one lying around (e.g., in a directory with an old Paradox game).

Just a thought.

 

[Perrou]

One more thing the game can save withouth problems if you access directly from the .exe (close steam and go for the game folder and access eu.exe) so the problem is something steam related with the game and not something about Win 32 bits.

 

[fleetothemoon]

One more thing the game can save withouth problems if you access directly from the .exe (close steam and go for the game folder and access eu.exe) so the problem is something steam related with the game and not something about Win 32 bits.

I originally thought this was the case. However, after about 30 years, I could no longer save. So it may be related to something else.

 

[Perrou]

I originally thought this was the case. However, after about 30 years, I could no longer save. So it may be related to something else.

You are correct i just try playing a game in witch I can save find at the begin and then afte 5 years I cant save anymore but thats not all the saves that already made dissapear even from the documents folder. This is issue is getting stranger.

 

[Mauer]

You are correct i just try playing a game in witch I can save find at the begin and then afte 5 years I cant save anymore but thats not all the saves that already made dissapear even from the documents folder. This is issue is getting stranger.

I think it's simply lack of RAM. Running from Steam may enable the game to do more things (like report usage statistics or something else) which are then tried to be saved to the file and adds to the saving process memory requirements, if you run without Steam this may not be the case so you can save the first few times but eventually as the game goes on there are more things that need to be saved and you go over the RAM limit again.

I guess I'll stick to the previous patch until I can get a proper gaming PC sometime next year.

 

[Perrou]

I think it's simply lack of RAM. Running from Steam may enable the game to do more things (like report usage statistics or something else) which are then tried to be saved to the file and adds to the saving process memory requirements, if you run without Steam this may not be the case so you can save the first few times but eventually as the game goes on there are more things that need to be saved and you go over the RAM limit again.

I guess I'll stick to the previous patch until I can get a proper gaming PC sometime next year.

Mmm. Paradox shoot itself in the foot in this update if that the case. Still I will wait for and oficial answer from the support staff and if that is correct it will leave me no other choise that to demand a refund for the AoW DLC. Sigh....

 

[Tuor]

Thank you, AndrewT.
I'm running WinXP, the game ran fine, but would not save. The save problem (including autosaves) was resolved by using the /3GB switch as per your post 20. I used a userva=2800 as per MS recommendation (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316739), and everything is fine.

 

[olddron]

For EVERYONE with 32bit Windows:
1: Open Command Prompt (it's in Accessories in Vista)

2: Set it to be in Admin mode http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947813(v=ws.10).aspx

3: Paste this in: bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2560

4: Restart


5: If you ever need to undo: BCDEdit /deletevalue increaseuserva


For XP only: http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27...ry-errors-allow-applications-use-2gb-ram.html

Note this will NOT help if you have 2gb or less of system memory, only loading fewer DLCs will do that, or rolling back to 1.7.3 .

And please start planning your move to 64bit Windows! Most Windows licenses allow you access to that for free, there's just the procedure of doing a reinstall that's a pain.

Yup, after pasting bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2560 in, works very well now, both saves and auto-saves. Got 3 GB RAM active on laptop I am using atm. Thank you Andrew!

 

[Marson]

To follow up on my last posts.

I can confirm that changing from Windows 8.1 32-bit to Windows 8.1 64-bit works. Thanks very much AndrewT.

 

[Demetrios]

For EVERYONE with 32bit Windows:

Try rolling back to 1.7.3 in the Steam beta tab; if that helps then do this Workaround:

1: Open Command Prompt (it's in Accessories in Vista)

2: Set it to be in Admin mode http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947813(v=ws.10).aspx

3: Paste this in: bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2560

4: Restart


5: If you ever need to undo: BCDEdit /deletevalue increaseuserva


For XP only: http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27...ry-errors-allow-applications-use-2gb-ram.html

Note this will NOT help if you have 2gb or less of system memory, only loading fewer DLCs will do that, or rolling back to 1.7.3 .

And please start planning your move to 64bit Windows! Most Windows licenses allow you access to that for free, there's just the procedure of doing a reinstall that's a pain.

OK, this worked like a charm!

Just out of curiosity, what did we just do to our machines? I assume remapped some of the memory so it could save?

Also: I am glad I'll be upgrading to a 64-bit machine in about two weeks. There are just way too many problems with a lot of games I like to play with 32-bit these days...

 

[fleetothemoon]

OK, this worked like a charm!

Just out of curiosity, what did we just do to our machines? I assume remapped some of the memory so it could save?

On 32-bit editions of Windows, applications have 4 gigabyte (GB) of virtual address space available. The virtual address space is divided so that 2 GB is available to the application and the other 2 GB is available only to the system. The 4-gigabyte tuning (4GT or 4GT RAM Tuning) feature, enabled with the BCDEdit /set increaseuserva command, increases the virtual address space that is available to the application up to 3 GB, and reduces the amount available to the system to between 1 and 2 GB.
For applications that are memory-intensive, such as database management systems (DBMS), the use of a larger virtual address space can provide considerable performance and scalability benefits. However, the file cache, paged pool, and nonpaged pool are smaller, which can adversely affect applications with heavy networking or I/O. Therefore, you might want to test your application under load, and examine the performance counters to determine whether your application benefits from the larger address space.
To enable 4GT, use the BCDEdit /set command to set the increaseuserva boot entry option to a value between 2048 (2 GB) and 3072 (3 GB).

Taken from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/bb613473(v=vs.85).aspx